Evening Edition: Trump’s NATO, E.U. comments fuel fears of a transatlantic split

Trump vows 'insurance for everybody' in plan to replace Obamacare; Trump national security spokeswoman declines post amid plagiarism charges; The Daily 202: It's bigger than John Lewis. Trump's team has been tone deaf on race.; Some Democrats are criticizing John Lewis's 'legitimate' jab at Trump. That means it worked.; Obama to commute hundreds more federal drug sentences during his final days in office; Wife of Orlando nightclub shooter arrested, charged in connection with the attack; Last astronaut to walk on the moon dies at 82; South Korean prosecutors seek warrant to arrest Samsung head for bribery; As Trump attacks John Lewis, here's how freedom riders broke the chains of segregation; Michelle Obama is quietly planning her next act; Abuse accusations against clerics still run high under Pope Francis, book claims; The D.B. Cooper case baffled investigators for decades. Now, scientists have a new theory.; General promises D.C. National Guard is ready for Inauguration Day despite furor; Even a Bruce Springsteen cover band is canceling its inauguration gig; De Blasio among celebrities protesting Trump before inauguration;   The day's most important stories   Trump's NATO, E.U. comments fuel fears of a transatlantic split European leaders took a tough line on President-elect Donald Trump's comments that the European Union is bound for breakup and NATO is obsolete, raising the prospect of an unprecedented breach of transatlantic relations once Trump comes to office. By Michael Birnbaum  •  Read more » Trump vows 'insurance for everybody' in plan to replace Obamacare In an interview with The Post, the president-elect declared that his plan for replacing the health-care law is all but finished. While he declined to reveal specifics, Donald Trump said he would force drug companies to negotiate directly with the government on prices for Medicare and Medicaid, and warned Republicans about slowing his agenda. By Robert Costa and Amy Goldstein  •  Read more »   Trump national security spokeswoman declines post amid plagiarism charges As a White House aide, Monica Crowley would not have faced confirmation proceedings. By John Wagner  •  Read more »   The Daily 202: It's bigger than John Lewis. Trump's team has been tone deaf on race. The president-elect's ill-informed attacks on beloved civil rights icon John Lewis this weekend underscored how unserious he is about redemption. But Donald Trump is also surrounded by people who have, at times, been tin-eared when race relations come up, raising questions about who will keep his darkest instincts in check. By James Hohmann  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Some Democrats are criticizing John Lewis's 'legitimate' jab at Trump. That means it worked. Democrats have figured out that a #ThisIsNotNormal hashtag is not the way to respond to President-elect Donald Trump. Their antidote is the New Rudeness. By David Weigel  •  Read more »   Obama to commute hundreds more federal drug sentences during his final days in office Amid fears the Trump administration will dismantle the clemency initiative, the Justice Department has completed its review of petitions and sent a final list of recommendations to President Obama. So far, 1,176 drug offenders have been released during Obama's tenure. By Sari Horwitz  •  Read more »   Wife of Orlando nightclub shooter arrested, charged in connection with the attack Noor Salman, the wife of Omar Mateen, was taken into custody and faces federal charges in connection with the June attack at Orlando's Pulse nightclub including obstruction of justice and providing material support to a terrorist organization. By Matt Zapotosky  •  Read more »   Gene Cernan | 1934-2017 Last astronaut to walk on the moon dies at 82 Former astronaut Gene Cernan, who was commander of NASA's Apollo 17 mission, set foot on the lunar surface in December 1972. "I wanted to stay a while," he recalled in 2007. By Seth Borenstein and Michael Graczyk | AP  •  Read more »   South Korean prosecutors seek warrant to arrest Samsung head for bribery The request to seek the arrest of the de facto head of the country's largest conglomerate marks another startling development in a scandal that has transfixed the country and brought it to a political halt. By Anna Fifield  •  Read more »   As Trump attacks John Lewis, here's how freedom riders broke the chains of segregation Days after President Obama designated as a monument the site of a 1961 attack against civil rights demonstrators, four Freedom Riders reflected on their historic campaign for social change. By Rhonda Colvin  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Michelle Obama is quietly planning her next act As the first lady prepares to leave the White House, she's been talking publicly about how eager she is to return to normal life. By Krissah Thompson  •  Read more »   Abuse accusations against clerics still run high under Pope Francis, book claims In the book, "Lust," an Italian journalist reexamined allegations against several of the pontiff's top advisers involving coverups or worse. By Anthony Faiola and Stefano Pitrelli  •  Read more »   The D.B. Cooper case baffled investigators for decades. Now, scientists have a new theory. Three amateur scientists think they may have found evidence that would narrow down Cooper's identity to that of an aerospace engineer or a manager. By Amy B Wang  •  Read more »   Inauguration 2017 General promises D.C. National Guard is ready for Inauguration Day despite furor Brig. Gen. William J. Walker says the ouster of his boss on Inauguration Day will not affect security: "We execute the mission regardless." By John Woodrow Cox  •  Read more »   Even a Bruce Springsteen cover band is canceling its inauguration gig The B-Street Band, citing respect to The Boss, won't perform at a New Jersey state society-sponsored gala during Donald Trump's inauguration. By Elahe Izadi  •  Read more »   De Blasio among celebrities protesting Trump before inauguration Organizers, including MoveOn.org and Greenpeace, expect thousands to join the protest outside the Trump Hotel in Manhattan on Thursday. By Helena Andrews-Dyer  •  Read more »           Share Evening Edition:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. You received this email because you signed up for Headlines. For additional free newsletters or to manage your newsletters, click here. We respect your privacy. If you believe that this email has been sent to you in error or you no longer wish to receive email from The Washington Post, click here. 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